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There is a vacant position as postdoctoral fellow for 2 years from September 2013 within the project “Topology in Norway”.

The project is a cooperation between research groups at the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. See http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=92733 for more details (there is a link to the english version in the upper right corner).

The application procedure is fully electronic via the above website.

Closing date for application: 3 May 2013

The aim of this postdoctoral project is to perform research and aid in the supervision of graduate students within the program “Topology in Norway”. The successful candidate will join one of the teams working on various aspects of algebraic topology, including stable homotopy theory, manifold topology, algebraic K-theory, and motivic homotopy theory. For more information about the aims and scope of this program, see the link to “Project description” on http://www.uib.no/People/csc021/TiN.html

An excellent opportunity to work as a PhD student with Vladimir Guletskii in Liverpool, on motivic homotopy theory and motivic zeta functions. Some more details on the precise idea of the project can be found here, and some related preprints by Guletskii are here. The application deadline has now been changed to 31st May 2012 – see the comment of Vladimir below!

Two positions open in Nottingham, 10-month contracts starting in Sep 2011, good pay. “Preference may be given to candidates whose research complements that of the School’s number theory group.” For more details, please get in touch with Ivan Fesenko.

The University of Milan has a general call for postdoc applications here. Within mathematics, they welcome applications within the following general subject areas (see pages 9 and 10 of the huge pdf file):